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Showing posts with label Simple Shoulder Test. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Simple Shoulder Test. Show all posts
Thursday, January 9, 2025

Why the Simple Shoulder Test is my preferred patient reported outcome measure.

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Many different shoulder outcome measures have been proposed.  Some ask the patient: "How would you rate your shoulder function as a per...
Thursday, August 22, 2024

Assessing arthroplasty outcomes - how do we know if we're doing better for our patients?

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In this era where many new innovations in shoulder arthroplasty are being brought forward, the incremental clinical value of each of these i...
Sunday, June 30, 2024

Patient satisfaction after shoulder arthroplasty - anticipation and informing

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Surgeons want their patients to be satisfied with the outcome of their shoulder arthroplasty. Two recent studies have correlated patient sat...
Thursday, April 6, 2023

The challenge of measuring shoulder arthroplasty outcomes: bias, ceiling effects, and practicality.

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Each surgeon has the opportunity - indeed the responsibility - to keep track of her or his surgical outcomes for the purpose of knowing what...
Thursday, January 26, 2023

Shoulder arthroplasty outcomes - it's not academic, it's personal

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Many articles written about measuring surgical outcomes fail to emphasize the greatest value of collecting followup data - the opportunity f...
Monday, August 22, 2022

The value of shoulder outcome scores - what does the patient care about?

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Authors often evaluate outcome scores in terms of what statisticians care about, but rarely in terms of what is of interest to the patient. ...
Saturday, August 6, 2022

Return to comfortable sleep after rotator cuff repair - evaluation using the Simple Shoulder Test

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 Majority of patients find sleep patterns return to normal 6 months following rotator cuff repair These authors observe that "Because s...